Howard Cunningham-Smith welcomes our three new Goldies Trustees.
Introducing our Golden-Oldies Trustees
Howard Cunningham-Smith – Chairman
Experienced in working with charities, he is a successful senior professional fundraiser with 22 years experience raising over £9 million for numerous causes.
Cllr Peter Edwards – current Chairman of Bath & North East Somerset Council
Councillor Peter Edwards has been the Ward Councillor for Publow and Whitchurch since May 2003 and for many years Peter has also been a Governor of Whitchurch Primary School.
Raymond Friel – Head Teacher supporting the Jubilee Time after Time Project
Raymond has been Headteacher, St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, since 2004. He will take the role of Executive Head at St Mark’s C of E School in September 2011.
Ian Head – Community Transport
Ian is the the Manager of Bath Community Transport. He is responsible for providing accessible transport to the elderly and disabled members of Bath.
Dr Jenny Smerdon
Jenny lives in Bath working as a clinical psychologist in a local community paediatric service. Alongside her work, Jenny has also chaired the local preschool and school PTA.
Lorraine Parker – Policies and Procedures
Lorraine re-trained as a business coach deciding to use her skills to help individuals & businesses to fulfil their potential.
Rob Parsons - Head Teacher supporting the Jubilee Time after Time Project
Rob is Headteacher at Colerne C of E Primary School, Wiltshire.
Mike Richardson – with responsibility for Finance
Director of Bath Chartered Accountancy practice Richardson Swift and has been working in this professional field for more than 30 years.
Imogen Sellers – BBC West / Communications
Imogen started her journalistic career on the Bath Chronicle and was crime reporter - before joining Bath FM for its launch, followed by freelancing for HTV. She then joined BBC Points West in 2001 where she is a presenter and reporter.
Dr Afroditi Stathi – Department of Health, University of Bath
Afroditi is a Lecturer in Exercise Psychology at the School for Health at the University of Bath. Her research focuses on the relationship between physical activity and well-being (particularly in older adults)
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Trustee Support, Helen Wann - Volunteer Secretary to the Trustees
Helen is an Executive Personal Assistant with extensive secretarial and administration experience at a senior level, both in the Commercial and Public sectors.
Grenville Jones - Founder and Chief Officer
Grenville is well-known and respected as a choir leader and musician in the West of England. He was named 'Bath Man of the Year 2008'by the Bath Chronicle for his work with Golden-Oldies and is a Mayor of Bath's Citizen of the Year 2009. He was nominated by a group of people who attend a Goldies session in Bath each week.
He is the man with a reputation for getting people to sing. Grenville is a member of the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) and founder conductor of The City of Bath Male Choir, which he started in February 2006 and now already has over 90 singers, reaching Top 5 and national acclaim in the BBC Last Choir Standing series. Grenville also has a ladies close-harmony/swing group called Stockingtops and he coaches a girls’ choir at the famous Norland College for Nannies in Bath. In May 2009 he launched a new daytime choir for retired and unemployed people called The Good Afternoon Choir.
His 80 voice-mixed voice choir THE Bath Chorus are also making a big name for themselves. Grenville is also a Council Member of the Association of British Choral Directors and is the only UK member of a consortium working on a European Union Music and Arts Project, which is investigating how technology can bring music and exercise in their own homes.
Keep up to date with all his music projects on www.grenvillejones.biz
Abby Rakes - Administrative OfficerAbby Rakes has always been very musical and attended piano, flute and soprano saxaphone lessons throughout her schooling. Whilst at secondary school, Abby became the founder member of the Bath & North East Somerset county choir, Cantilena. After completing her GCSE's and A Levels, Abby went to Bournemouth University where she attained a BSc (HONS) in Business Information Systems Management. Although heavily involved in the Bournemouth University Choir and Orchestra, Abby still found time to be a member of a choir in Bath. Abby is now a member of the Bath Chorus.
After training in management for giant supermarket chain Tesco, Abby took the plunge and applied for the position of Golden-Oldies Administrator and has been with the charity since April 2008.
Russell Abel - Finance Officer
Russell retired from HSBC Bank in 2008 after a 38 year career and, as he says, jumped at the opportunity of being involved with Golden-Oldies by becoming part-time Finance Manager two years ago. Besides helping keep his 'little grey cells' active he admits to finding the role somewhat invigorating by working alongside Grenville!
Company Number: 6369123 - Charity Registration Number: 1121600
